Hill, Lawrence F.  "Confederate Exiles to Brazil."  The Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 7, no. 2 (May 1927): 192-210. Jefferson, Mark.  "An American Colony in Brazil." Geographical Review,  vol. 18, no. 2 (April 1928): 226-231. Martin, Percy Alvin.  "Slavery and Abolition in Brazil."  The Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 13, no. 2 (Mar. 1933): 151-196. Weaver, Blanche Henry Clark.  "Confederate Emigration to Brazil".  The Journal of Southern History, vol. 27, no. 1 (Feb. 1961): 33-63. Weaver, Blanche Henry Clark.  "Confederate Immigrants and Evangelical Churches in Brazil."  The Journal of Southern History, vol. 18, no. 4 (Nov. 1952): 446-468. Lori Thornton [email protected] --- On Fri, 6/19/09, Wanda Sawtelle <[email protected]> wrote: From: Wanda Sawtelle <[email protected]> Subject: [MSMONROE] Confederates move to Brazil To: [email protected] Date: Friday, June 19, 2009, 10:19 PM Beville State at Walker College campus currently has the Lincoln Exhibit.  Speakers have presented programs on different aspects of life as it was during the Lincoln era and after the Civil War.       I had not realized that 4,000 confederates from the deep south states of MS, AL, GA, TX moved on to southern Brazil to land granted them by the Brazilian gov't.  They brought better quality of education and plows to Brazil and maintained their Confederate identity.  When Jimmy Carter was governor of GA he made a trip to Brazil and did visit with decendants of the Confederate Colonists there.     I knew there was migration from AL to TX during the period right after the Civil War but to Brazil is new to me.  Does anyone know of family members who joined in this move to Brazil?  or good sources that recorded these years from 1865 to 1885 as this movement took place? ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message